The affordable housing crunch isn’t special to Vancouver — as suburbs such as Burnaby are seeing rental stock getting paved over for flashier, and often more expensive highrises — often leaving low-income earners behind.

Don and Eleanor Gorman were forced to move from a property at Marlborough and Dunblane avenues last year, as the owner is redeveloping it for a highrise condo tower. Now they’ve received notice they’ll have to move from their current Metrotown apartment.